And welcome to closing bell everybody.

I am Brian Sullivan Live from Post 9 here at the New York Stock Exchange

and the hour begins with what could be a fourth straight month of games for Dow, the S&P and your money.

Let's take a look at the scorecard with 60 minutes left. of the

month of Gains for the Dow, the S&P and your money.

Not only in the day or the week, but for the month of August,

and we are seeing not a lot of move.

S&B at 4 tenths of 1%.

Nasdak outperforming, it is up 5 tenths of 1%.

Gowdown literally, caught unchanged, down 2, 100th of 1%.

Hey, it is a Friday in the summer

heading into a long holiday weekend,

the market's steady, but there are some very big single stock

movers.

You got Intel stock popping, listen to this, reports that Intel could be looking to sell part of itself

Intel we got someone who says the name could be even a bigger takeover target now

It's a mixed picture on the consumer side. On one hand you

got Ulta Beauty more like the beast. It's down 4% hit on the back of earnings

but Abercrombie and Fitch getting a boost Citigroup

upgrading the stock to a buy from a neutral and if you haven't been paying attention to the

teen or tween retailer Abercrombie, A&F, is up 65% so far this year. It has been one of the hottest stocks of all.

All right, this all talk takes us to our talk of the tape, how to play stocks into the year end.

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